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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781627932530
A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida
Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350104
What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.
Author : Ernest Schanzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136564963
The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.
Author : David F. McCandless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253113342
"This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.
Author : Richard Hillman
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015001479527
Critical discussion of three Shakespeare plays, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well that Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, that defy attempts to classify them as either comedy, romance, tragedy, or satire.
Author : William B. Toole
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111392226
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Wilder Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627554629
Comedy and Tragedy-- Collected here in one binding are All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida. Collectively they are known as Shakespeare's Problem Plays. While the first two are usually placed with the comedies and the later with the tragedies none of them fit neatly into either classification. Their structure, subject matter, and resolutions create problems for those who want simple classifications. The term was coined by critic F. S. Boas who believed that these plays each explored a moral dilemma and social problem through their main characters, giving the term a layered meaning. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Author : A. G. Harmon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791484920
In Eternal Bonds, True Contracts, A. G. Harmon closely analyzes Shakespeare's concentrated use of the law and its instruments in what have often been referred to as the problem plays: Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, and All's Well That Ends Well. Contracts, bonds, sureties, wills—all ensure a changed relationship between parties, and in Shakespeare the terms are nearly always reserved for use in the contexts of marriage and fellowship. Harmon explores the theory and practice of contractual obligations in Renaissance England, especially those involving marriage and property, in order to identify contractual elements and their formation, execution, and breach in the plays. Using both legal and literary resources, Harmon reveals the larger significance of these contractual concepts by illustrating how Shakespeare develops them both dramatically and thematically. Harmon's study ultimately enables the reader to perceive not only these plays but also all of Shakespeare's writing—including his poetry—as integral with, and implicated in, the proliferating legalism that was helping to define early modern English culture.
Author : Jean-Pierre Maquerlot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521410835
This 1996 book offers an original approach to Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. How can a term used to define a movement in art history be made relevant to theatrical analysis? Maquerlot shows how famous painters of sixteenth-century Italy cultivated structural ambiguity or dissonance in reaction to the classical canons of the High Renaissance. Close readings of Shakespeare's plays, from the period 1599 to 1604, reveal intriguing analogies with Mannerist art and the dramatist's response to Elizabethan formalism. Maquerlot concludes by examining Othello, which marks the end of Shakespeare's Mannerist experiments, and the less equivocal use of artifice in his late romances.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521854481
Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.
Author : Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030008644793
Discusses the plays Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's well that ends well, and Measure for measure.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1000084381
Author : Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415308670
Kidnie brings current debates in performance criticism in contact with recent developments in textual studies to explore what it is that distinguishes Shakespearean work from its apparent other, the adaptation.
Author : Robbie Duschinsky,Simone Schnall,Daniel H Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315529714
Mary Douglas’s seminal work Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be indispensable reading for both students and scholars today. Marking the 50th anniversary of Douglas’s classic, the present volume sheds fresh light upon themes raised by Douglas by drawing on recent developments in the social sciences and humanities, as well as current empirical research. In presenting new perspectives on the topic of purity and impurity, the volume integrates work in anthropology and sociology with contemporary ideas from religious studies, cognitive science and the arts. Containing contributions from both established and emerging scholars, including protégées of Douglas herself, Purity and Danger Now is an essential volume for those working on purity and impurity across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001933371